Jacob Kleinman

Still playing without starters Jeremy Lin and Amare Stoudemire, the New York Knicks beat the Orlando Magic at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, thanks to high scoring games from Camelo Melo Anthony and Iman Shumpert.

The anti-climactic ending to the Mass Effect trilogy, and more importantly the vehement fan response, which manifested itself in angry letters and forum comments, an online community calling itself Retake ME3, and even a Dadaist protest in the form of 402 cupcakes delivered to game developer BioWare's offices, has earned an unheard of amount of press coverage. Blogs and online newspapers (IBTimes included) have gleefully reported on the incessant back and forth between disappointed fa...

Ever since Rihanna was spotted arriving at Ashton Kutcher's Hollywood mansion around midnight and leaving at 4 a.m. and the blurry photographs were leaked to TMZ the rumor mill has been whirring with speculation that that the two are getting romantically serious and may even be planning to spend the summer together in England, where Rihanna will be performing in June and July.

Disney has announced two upcoming sequels to their 2010 action adventure game, Epic Mickey. Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion will be released exclusively on the 3DS this fall, while The Power of Two, will come out on Oct. 1, 2012 for PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

David and Elaine McClain, ages 72 and 70, have been forced to abandon their Florida home after a message on Twitter claiming that George Zimmerman, the self-appointed neighborhood watch leader who shot and killed Trayvon Martin lived at their address (159 Edgewater Circle. Sanford, Florida) went viral. Since then the elderly couple have been harassed with angry and threatening letters, hassled incessantly by the media and been confronted by their own neighbors, their son Chip Humble said to the ...

'Battlefield 3' will briefly go offline for PC on Thursday for an hour-and-a-half at 8 am while a new patch is installed. The updates include a number of tweaks to the battlefield gameplay and to balancing. The patch will also bring new rent a server functionality for PC players and fix some of the bugs and glitches which plague the game. See the full list of changes here.

It looks like Rihanna and Chris Brown are officially through. Turns out that for the past two months, while RiRi and Breezy hinted at a possible romantic reunion, she was actually (or possibly also) secretly seeing Ashton Kutchter, who recently divorced Demi Moore.

Fans of the Mass Effect franchise who were disappointed in the new title's ending have found many outlets for their anger at Bioware and the game developers who they say phoned in the ending to the video game space-opera.

Rihanna has agreed to be a judge for the second season of American X Factor, according to claims made by MTO based on an anonymous source they say is an insider.

An article published on pcmagazine.com on March 26 covered Anonymous's involvement in Lori Handrahan's efforts to save her daughter Mila, who she claims is being physically and sexually abused by her ex-husband Igor Malenko. The custody battle, which has been going for three years, may not be as clear-cut as Handrahan presents it.

Google Play made its official debut on Tuesday, March 27, after a soft opening earlier this month. The Android Marketplace, where Google smartphone users went for apps, has been re-branded as the Google Play store. Google made the switch on March 6, 2012, releasing a short video on YouTube and redirecting users from the old web site, market.android.com, to the new Google Play homepage. Google also put dozens of apps and games on sale for just 49 cents in celebration of the shift.

Vermont police say they discovered a dead body which they believe to be Melissa Jenkins, a local science teacher at St. Johnsbury academy who was declared missing on Sunday night. According to State Police Major Ed Ledo, it is likely Jenkins, though her identification cannot be confirmed until after the autopsy. The body has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington, Vt. The autopsy should be conducted on Tuesday.

In new teaser released by IGN, Assassin's Creed creative director Mark Hutchinson discusses the new game, which is set for release October 30, 2012. The YouTube video shows cut-scenes and gameplay from the new title while Hutchinson lists the new features they have brought to the third Assassin's Creed game and explains the thought process behind development for Assassin's Creed 3, which takes place during the American Revolution.

The New York Knicks beat the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night at Madison Square Garden despite the absence of starting players Jeremy Lin and Amare Stoudemire due to physical injuries, bring ing them back to an even .500 record for the season. Seventh game in the last eight. The Bucks had won their last five road games and the loss at MSG came as a surprise.

Ever since Rihanna and Chris Brown collaborated on remixes of each other's tracks Birthday Cake and Turn Up The Music, fans and media have been speculating that the two R&B stars were dating again in secret, following their notorious 2009 breakup after Chris Brown punched Rihanna repeatedly while driving his car (according to the police report). Now the news is leaking that RiRi and Breezy may be reuniting on stage this Summer at the SupaFest music festival in Brisbane, Austra...

The Knicks bounced back after a loss on Friday night to beat the Detroit Pistons by 22 points (79-101) on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. Watch our YouTube video roundup of game highlights and post-game interviews with the players and coach Woodson.

It looks like hip-hop bad boy Chris Brown, who broke onto the scene with Strip and recently drew criticism for his performance of Turn Up The Music, still isn't over Rihanna. Brown reportedly coughed up more than $70,000 to give RiRi a Cartier Love diamond bracelet.

At a press conference and rally organized by the so-called New Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Florida on Thursday, members of the political group circulated posters calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman dead or alive for shooting 17-year-old African-American Trayvon Martin.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony is already known around the world as a war criminal who has terrorized sub-Saharan Africa for decades with his army of abducted child soldiers thanks to the massively successful Kony 2012 project and viral video campaign launched by controversial humanitarian group Invisible Children.

Led by DeMar DeRozan with 30 points, the Toronto Raptors beat the New York Knicks on Friday night, March 23, in Canada, ending New York's five-game winning streak. The Knicks had been building momentum ever since coach Mike D'Antoni resigned and was replaced with Mike Woodson.

The online leaderless collective of hacktivists and geeks known as Anonymous is supporting a new cause, sex workers right. Specifically, the group has taken issue with the decision by a Minnesota high-school's decision to ban porn star Megan Piper from attending Prom night as a guest after she accepted an invitation from 18-year old student Mike Stone on the condition that he pay her air fare. Anonymous has yet to take any action against the school, which they accuse of demonizing sex wor...

The Hunger Games movie premiered on Thursday at midnight, selling out theaters and earning an 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 95 percent approval rating from users. Now that the movie everyone has been waiting for is here, gossip about what went down during production of the film is starting to come out. According to a source who spilled the beans to Perez Hilton there was plenty of sex and drug abuse taking place behind the scenes of The Hunger Games during filming.

NBC's Community returned for a second episode on Thursday night following a 3-month long hiatus enforced by the network in what seemed at the time like the show getting cancelled. The second episode since the show's triumphant return following an outpouring of support from fans both online and in the form of flashmobs at Rockefeller center was full of the wacky antics and insane plot twists that Community is known for as the cast was forced to dress up as movie stars and work a bar-mitzvah...

Mad Men season 5 premieres this Sunday, March 25 on AMC at 8 pm and legions of eager fans who have gone without new episodes during the show's 17-month hiatus are still almost completely in the dark regarding where and when the 2-hour long episode will pick up as well how the plot will develop. The biggest question most fans are pondering is whether Don Draper (Jon Hamm) will stay with his ex-secretary Megan Calvet, who he proposed to during the season 4 finale, or end up back with ex-wife Be...

Although the Russian people seem to be having some trouble choosing a national leader, they had little trouble deciding to send Buranovskiye Babushki to Azerbaijan to compete in the 2012 Eurovision song contest with their dance-hall hit single Party For Everybody. Buranavoskiye Babushki, is made up of eight Russian grandmothers, though only six will be allowed to compete according to Eurovision rules.

As the dust settled the details of Merah's life began to emerge, painting a picture of a troubled young man who was swept up in and radicalized by Middle Eastern jihadism.

The second episode in South Park's 16th season took on Cash for Gold stores and cable shopping networks, mapping out a ridiculous conspiracy in which gold is continuously made into jewelry, sold to old Americans, gifted to their children and grandchildren, sold for a few bucks at pawn shops, smelted down and then forged into jewelry again in a never ending cycle designed to rip off the elderly. Of course Stan sets out to solve the mystery and right the wrong while Cartman attempts to cash in ...

On Wednesday night Rihanna went out drinking in LA where she was photographed by Paparazzi before she mysteriously left the club right after checking her phone. We know what you're thinking, but she wasn't going to see her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who was convicted of physically abusing her three years ago and could still be arrested for breaking his probation after stealing an iPhone off a fan last month. According to TMZ, RiRi received a suggestive text message from movie star Ashton Ku...

Quarterback Tim Tebow's trade to the New York Jets from the Denver Broncos was confirmed late Wednesday night after a day full of speculation.